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...wear his cap of fur...
...paused to wave at the patrons through the steamy window, went on to accept the best wishes of a contingent of grocers at the California Fruit Market. In the doorway of the Sherwin-Williams paint company, he unexpectedly came upon a pretty woman in a red coat and black fur cap -his wife Jacqueline, who had just arrived from Washington to join in the opening day of his New Hampshire campaign...
...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...
Active in the Gulf and the North Atlantic Fisheries Investigations and the International Fur Seal Investigation, his studies of deep-sea fishes, especially those off the coast of north Japan, have brought to light many new species and varieties. A native of New York, the 32-year-old Mead attended Stanford University where he received the A.B., A.M., and the Ph.D. degrees...
Back in Geneva and jaunty in a Russian fur hat. Secretary Visser 't Hooft last week described the "songs and shouts of welcome, the waving of handkerchiefs, and the joy of being with Christians of other churches, the sincere desire for closer contacts with those from other lands." How was Christianity doing? Orthodox leaders estimated church membership at about 25 million (total pop. 208,826,000), and the theological seminaries were well-filled with high-caliber students. Congregations are surprisingly large (as many as 10,000 in one service at Leningrad), but the question is how long they will...